School choice now a pillar of education reform in the United States is widely touted as a strategy for addressing educational inequity. Yet efforts to implement school choice can exacerbate, rather than counteract, inequities. Unaccompanied Minors takes a close look at the experience of immigrant students and their families navigating New York City s mandatory high school choice program.

Drawing on rich ethnographic data including students own perspectives on the decision-making process Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj examines the assumptions and expectations underlying the school...

School choice now a pillar of education reform in the United States is widely touted as a strategy for addressing educational inequity. Yet efforts to implement school choice can exacerbate, rather than counteract, inequities. Unaccompanied Minors takes a close look at the experience of immigrant students and their families navigating New York City s mandatory high school choice program.

Drawing on rich ethnographic data including students own perspectives on the decision-making process Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj examines the assumptions and expectations underlying the school...